Michael Dirda’s review of And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Alan Riding
Alan Riding is an esteemed journalist, long a European cultural correspondent for the New York Times and, before that, the author of what is still the best modern introduction to Mexico, Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans. Since 1985 the book has sold nearly half a million copies. And the Show Went On deserves a comparable success. It is certainly one of the finest works of serious popular history. (…more at Washington Post website…)